Northampton College has received a Gold Award for the Reading Agency's Six Book Challenge for the third year running. The national reading competition requires students to read six books, short stories, newspaper or magazine articles, poems or web pieces and write up their personal reviews for each in a diary.
Northampton College came third out of the 110 colleges that took part in 2013-2014 and was placed fifth nationally from over 380 organisations. The College's latest Gold Award is the highest accolade for the competition in the country. Lynn Goodman, Deputy Librarian said, "To receive the Gold Award yet again is a fantastic achievement for the College. Six Book Challenge is a great national initiative for us to be continually involved with as it encourages less confident readers to develop their literacy skills. To watch students who never usually read sitting in the Library with a book or magazine is a wonderful sight and we are delighted to have had such a positive response and have seen significant results on pass rates for students who have taken part, particularly among our Supported Learning students and students whose first language is not English."
